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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Advance Notice:
Board Committee Public Session</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Discussion
of public participation and document publication operational policy</span></p>
<p style="margin: 11.25pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">18
September 2009</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The ICANN Board Public
Participation Committee (PPC) will be holding a special public session on
Monday 5 October at 15:00 UTC to discuss the Committee's work, focusing in
particular on the Document Publication Operational Policy currently out for
public comment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The public session will be
held entirely online using the conferencing software that ICANN has been
testing over the course of 2009 for its remote participation abilities. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Any and all community members
are invited to join the session, which will be accessible through the address: <a href="http://icann.na3.acrobat.com/ppc/">http://icann.na3.acrobat.com/ppc/</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The meeting will be split
into two parts:</span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The first
will cover the broad issue of public participation within ICANN and
Committee members will outline what they are currently working on, as well
as take questions and suggestions. Input will be fed into the Committee's
public session at the international public meeting in Seoul at the end of
October.</span></li></ul>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The second
part will take up the majority of the time and be dedicated to community
discussion of the Document Publication Operational Policy. Input will be
fed into the public comment period currently open on the operational
policy.</span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The operational policy covers
the provision of documents and meeting agendas a set time ahead of an ICANN
international public meeting, and also includes sections on the provision of
executive summaries, plain language, use of jargon and acronyms, translation
and so on. It was put out for public comment on 8 September and comments on it
will be accepted for three days following the PPC public session.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The date of the PPC public
session – Monday 5 October – is particularly relevant as it is also the
deadline date for the Seoul meeting (15 working days ahead of the opening day
on 26 October).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In particular, the Committee
is interested in hearing the community's perspectives on the potential impact
of the operational policy and what may be done to alleviate any issues.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Find out what time the
meeting is taking place where you are <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=5&year=2009&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=0">by
following this link</a>.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Related links:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Online session (will go live
just prior to 15:00 UTC on Monday 5 October):<br>
<a href="http://icann.na3.acrobat.com/ppc/">http://icann.na3.acrobat.com/ppc/</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Document Publication
Operation Policy (EN):<br>
<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/participate/draft-document-publication-operational-policy-en.pdf">http://www.icann.org/en/participate/draft-document-publication-operational-policy-en.pdf</a>
[PDF, 146K]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Public comment period on
operational policy:<br>
<a href="https://vbulletin.dev.icann.org/">https://vbulletin.dev.icann.org/</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Public Participation
Committee homepage:<br>
<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/committees/participation/">http://www.icann.org/en/committees/participation/</a></span></p>